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-..- ^ WB VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. iiterestlng Items About Our Own CouBtry, Oreat Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Qlobe, Condensed and Asisortcd (or Easy Reading. CANADA. IVfamitoba farmers are sbiipplng large quantities of stock to tbe Yukon. Th« Spring Hidl Coal Company, at Nova Scotia wi'll oijerate the Souria cim1-I ieldfl. where tib«y h»ve secured tracts of I aod. Au uj{ent of the Doiuinion Govern- iu»nt is at CojM-nbatg^n securing Lap- lao'iers and reindeer for the Yukon Tb» M]a.rquia of Lome 'has acrepte<i the posiition of Honorary Colonel of fchu 15th Battalion, Arg-yle Lighft Infantry. The Dttpartmenit of Inland Revenue affected 215 seiizurea during the past rear a large naatber t>eing illicit wbia- key stills. Her Ma.jesty's ship Phaeton, and tor- pedo destroyer . Si>arrmvh*wk are at Esquinmlt, B.C. There are now seven vrar8hi})s in that barl»r. Ow^.iig to the heavy drafts made on the Moumjted Police for aervire in the YukokU. the remaijiijig forot find it dif- ficult to attend to the calls made on itbiem. The Ci.ty H&ll at J^mton, tihe scene of tbe recent accident, m being repair- ed, but thers is an agitati<M in tli« oity for the erectiorn of a new hall far- ther north. The ijiveatigaling governors of tlie Eoyal Ca.iiadLan Humane UVssociation have av.ariied the silver medal to Al- bert J. Cummer of Htajnilton for saving Miss Amelia Hall from drowuini^. Since the beginning of the year thlr- ty-niiie fami;it« from tlv' United States have taken up their alwde in Toronto, being of tte opinion tha.t the future erf that city Is brigbtpr than the out- look in the UkiJtod States cities. GREAT BRITAIN. CouAteijs Russell, widow of Lord John Ru&iell, is dea>i at lK>ndon. Groat Britain has a^aln declined to reoi«a' the eeajing que^^ion in answer bo a request of the United Stales. It is said in Lon-lon Miat the Govern- menl will ask I'arliaaiient to sanction lui increase of the armiy by I5,0UU men. Alarming rumors regarding Mr. Gladstone's health are again currenl tta Loodon, but. refwrts from Cannes â- laie li;at there is little foun<iation for I hem. The very Rev. Henry George Lid- dell. I he former dean oi Christ church, Oxford, is dead. He \\a^ L«rn in 1811, and «an at onto time ciiayjain to the Prince Consori. Events ip ti:e for ea)t are forcing again inlo prominence tlie Pacific caide quustiun. The influential journais all point, out thf urKBut need of au all Brilish cable. The suit. again.-il Lady Sykes in Lon- don, by Jay, a money-lender, baa fail- •i, th« jury finding that the .<iiguatures to the notes were forged. This puts h«r Ladyslilp io a ratben worse posi- tiou than l«fore. The »?inial commemoration of the death of I'rincj} Ueftiry of Paitenlwng took i>laoe on Wednes. a,v at Wihipping- ham church, whore his remains are rest- ing. The ceremony waa ai tended by Queen Victoria, Princeas Henry of Batlenlierg, Princess Cbri-stian, and the Miarchion«aa of Lurne. UNITED STATES, The oity clarkVs office a-nd iwst-offlce at Bla<-k, Verm <nt, httws been destroy- ed by Hra. Eight m«in were killed and four seri •usly wouivled at Ssundy Forts, Ky., Juk a figlit which arcxte over a game of cards. All were colored. There is a big .strike runong the cot- Uton operatiors at New B'.^dltord, Mass., and other New Kn^yiand towns, over the reduction in wag»s. At th»> annual meeting of the Boston ChanvtjBr of Commerce the rp.solubion.x ravonnK recipro.iiy with Canada were uinianimously adoi>ted. Tlhe Clevelamd MuaLc Hall, which was built in 1885, at a cost of J60,000, woa destroyed by fire on Saturday night. It had a seating capacilty of seven thou- sand. "Gray Gables," the summer home ot ex-Preeident Cleveland, at Buzzard's Bay, hfl-s l)ee>ii visited by burglars, who rnn8a<ked the house from attic to cellar aiml mtule good their escape without leaving the slightest clue to their iden- tity. Thte proposition now before the New York State Legislature to logali/e Sun- day theatricals in New York city has evoJsed a storm of protests from the theatrical profession, wbo dislike the Idaa of losing their one day of rest. They will ask th« clergy to assist them la a, crusade against tbe proposal. GENERAL. Yellow fever haa disappeared from Jamaica. Disastrous floods are reported from Perpiginan, on the Spanish frontier of Prance. One Catholic priest was shot and three wounded during vespers in a Catholic church, at Corfu, Island of Corfu, Greece. PCeasrs. IHiiokie and Pminty, who e»- oaiwd the massacre of the British sur- vey party which was attacked by na- tives at Mekran, on January 12, have reached Ormara, on the Arabian Sea. There was a severe earthquake shork OH Monday at Argenta, Italy, eighteen miles south-oast of Ferrara. A church and several buildings were wrecked, and some persons were injored. During the past week the deaths from the bubonic plague at Bombay Bumbered 861. From all causes there were 1,540 deaths. The exodus is increasing, and business is stag- nant. Considerable surprise lias been caus- ed at Berlin, by a dea|)atch( from St. Petersbur;?, to the Cologne Gazette announcing that Russia bos formied a new army corjis on tlve German and Austrian frontiers at Vilna and Kieff. MR. GENTLEBT CHAORINED- » Rrnliirs in niii Own Bxpf<rmc« Aomr tl.lnc That lli> lliid Ollcn Bend Ahant tii nookH* " When there arose in the household a question as to the exi)enditure of money for a imrpose that to me seem- ed a luxury we coujjd not afford and should not Indulge in," said Mr. Gen- tleby, "I opposed it vigorously. I am not no sure but what some of my vigor arose from the fact that the money to be spent would cotae out of my own pocket ; but I was right about it, any- way. It would have been an unwise and unreasonable exi)enditure for us to make, and I knew it, and I resisted it to the extent of refusing to make it. "And then I male a great mistake. After I had got It ail settled for good reasons, and finally and distinctly bad refused lo sjiend the money. Hen, mov- ed l)y ilrs. Genlleby's continuous dis- cussion and l)y my own desire to idease her, 1 said all right, we'd siwnd the monwy. •' • Well,' said Mra. GBntlel>y, ' I think they ought to i ut you up on that pole!' and nlit^ rointe I to a flagpole on a build- ing within siiflit of our domicile, u'on whioh there was oii<-e a weather vane, which we often consulted, but which luis now l)een removed. " Weil I I haven't been so shocked in years I I had revi in novels, and ev- erywhere else, alioul how women like strong men, that a> ore all other qual- ities they admire courage, and tiat they glorify the resolute and desitine the vacillating, but I had never realiz- ed it until now. But I realized it now with a vengeance. B|r this oine act of weakness, prompted by kiiidness though it was, I had knocked myself down from my iiedestal. " Hereafter when 1 kick I kick to the end." AN IDEA FROM BELGIUM. â- allwar Honpllnl 4'ar lo Carry Wnandrd !â- > IIM Wenrral Cllr. In Belgium they have what is known as the lioepilal car, and when a serious railA\ay accident occurs the car may Iw run to the si'Ot, where the wounded may t)e picked up and carried to the nearest large city for treatment, in- stead of wailing hours for the arrival of 8urg<-oii0. Again, tlie case can! be used to trans- [tort large companies of invalids from place to place at certain .seasons of the year. The interior of the car Is divid- ed iAto a main comijartment. a corri- dor on one 8i<lft and two amall rooms at the end. The hospital proper is in the larger compartment; it contains twenty-four isolaled Ijets of steel tubes hung from powerful springs. Each patient lies in front of two little windows which ma.v !« opened or close! at will. Kacbr bed is provide<I with a little mocal>le table lo hold all oliject.s required. On the outsiiliB of the bosiiital cham- lier the corridor leads us to the linen closet and the doctor's department, in which there is a hutre cupboard used for drugs, surgical instruments an I a folding bed. Various tra:p doors in the floor oiiea into receptacJes for ice, a provision cellar, etc. Arrangements arc made tor an operating cliaml)er and there ia even a .small cliai«l for relig- ious worship. The Var will Ije used principally to carry invalids from Belgium to the miraculous cure at Luurdes, France. THE SACRED FIRES OF INDIA. The sacred fires of India have not all been extinguished. The most an- cient which still exists was consecral- (?d twelve centuries ago, in commem- oration of the voyage made by the Por- »eea when tliey emigrated from Per- sia to India. The fire is fed five times every twenty-four hours with sandal wool !ind olber fragrant ujatoriuls, com- Idned with very dry fuel. This fire, in Iho village of Oodvala, near Bulsor, is visited by Parsees in large numbers during Ihe montlia allotted to the pre- siding genius of fire. TREE IRREGULARITY. A naturalist jx>inted out the reason for trees growing in their irregular sba[ies. Their irregularity serves a most im|K)rtaat purpose. When a gal» is blowiing Uu> branohos will be .teen to sway in all directions, and Uieir movemeinits tend to Ijalanoe the tree. Were they to away iia tlie seuno direc- tion the tree would be uprooted or broken off. THE LAZIEST PEOPLE. The natives of the Sandwich Islands are said to be the laziest people on earth. Nature gives them enough to eat without aoy co'nsideral.>le labor, and they seem contented with what they thus receive. FROZEN BUTTERFLIES. Mountain climbers frequently find hutterflies frozen on, the snow and so brittle that they break unless care- fully handled. When thawed the but- terflies recover and, fly away. KtDB LIGHTS. â- Ai wise wonuua never looks a bar- gain gift book on the prioei mark. All the world'sl a stage, but most of it isn't fitted op ^vitb foot, lights. f TEE FARMERS' ICE CROP. Perhaps there is no buildiug the coat of which can lie so well adapted to the farmer's means as the ice house. For a few dollars invested in cheap lumljer, says a writer, and two or three days' work, he can have an ice house that will answer bis purpose nearly as well as a more expensive one, or he can hire a carpenter to build the house, use good materials paint and shingle it at a cost of from J50 to >100; but one will keep ioe about aa well as the other. The first ice bouse I built was a cheap one. It was twelve by fourteen feet, I think, but large enough for our purpose. A few old boards I had on hand, some two by four scantlijog for the frame, and a few naiJs were all the material used, and a day's work for my- self and hired man, built it. The saw- dust was obtained at a sawmill near by, and the ioe from the mill-pond, coat- ing nothing except our own work. For severaj yeai^ we were supplied with ice with little or no outlay in caah. The old ice house was not very ornaanental to the plnce, and ^ve tore iit down and erected a more costly building; but the old building kept the ice nearly as well as the new, and 1 mention it to show the amall cost for which ioe may b eput up so that no farmer who has the time to atteaid to it need be wlh- out ioe. Five to tem two-horse loads of ice are generally sufficient for both dairy and family use, and t.vo or three loads of sawdust will pack it. If any one wishes to invest about 850 in an ico house eight by twelve feetâ€" which holds about twenty tonsâ€" it can be built as follows: Use two by six studding and cut them about ten feet long. On the ouUide use good, planed siding and paint it. The inside of the studding can lie boarded up with rou^fh^ cheap lumber. Wheo boarding up fill in the place Ijetween the boards with sawdust well tamped down. On a building of this kind I would shingle the roof and put a ventilator in it. I would ohio i)ut a good wall under the building, and level the lx.ttom by filling in with small stone. A location should be chosen with good drai.nage to carry off the water from the meltiog ioe. for the water should uot settle and sUnd under the building. Wfa^-n filling tbu house with ice, flax straw is aljout the best materi- al to imt i,u the bottom, but only a few fanners will have it and most must use oth..'r straw or saivuust. :jawdust aione on the bottom docs not make a complete draioage; so it is a good plan first to put same coarser material on the bottom ajid S|)read a few ijiches of sawdust over it. Large blocks of ice squarely cut. of uniJorm size, pack and keep the best, and there wlU lie less wiu*to from melli,.|g, if Joe ,.a„ i^g (,b. taimod from flXU.-,„u to twenty inches thivk. After putting in a :ayer, «» ov- er iJ; and fill in the crmicus with broken ICO, then level the surfiwe \vith an adz bofons imttiag in the next layer. Leave a siMico of a foot or more around t;lie oulaido ot tJio ioe to l>6 fiUod in with sawuuBt; theu cover tha top with about e.Kbte«n inches of sawdust. Close the door and open the ventiJator in the roof, and there is no reoson why thq ite should not ke«p well. If .several farm- ers iij a neigi>borhood will ooinliine in purobasuig an u.o plow, tho oost toeach would be but small and wifth it the labor ofd outti/ng the ice is much less. W,th suUttblo ioe tongs tUa iw is quick- ly loaded from a chute laid from the l)ond to the loading place. I like to draw the ioe om sleighs, and with a man to help me load and pack tha ice- a day's work will put in all fcbaH I need,' and then half a duy'a wv>rk puts in the sawdust. There are many luxuries and conveniences iKJSstble to the farmer with a supply of ico for family use. Durin« the hot weather none can make ice cream aa cheaply im the farmer, for he has all the materials, if ho has ice and an mexjiensive freezer. A refrigerat- or placed in the pantry is a great (on- veniwioe for t;he housekeeper for pre- serving meat, fruit, etc., in summer lassing over many other uses for ice I will only say Uiat one accuslomod to having a supply of ice docs not want to do without it. , . I HOW TO GET EGGS IN WINTER. This is always an Intercsiing subject, much easier to write al)out than to bring about. Our experience leads us lo be- lieve thai nothing but warm quarters, variety of feed, plenty of meal and many pullets will bring many winter eggs. AV. T. Wittinaa gives this ad- vice: To start with the house was built for comfort, cost about 31.50 per run- ning foot, and was so situated us to catoh erery lilt of winter sunshine. Roof tmd drainage M-^re given esjiecial attontibn. The ventilation was mixed with common sense, j>lonty on warm, sunny days and none at all on cold nighta, no draughts anywhei>e. Doors were made tigibt with woolen strips; no air could enter except at ventilat- ors at bottom of sashes. Scratchiiing sheds were fiiled with fresh garden loam, which was dry all wiater. Pul- lets were April and May hatchj, all Bro\vn Leg-horns bred in line for qual- ity ajnd eggs. They were raised on free raingei, wheat, Imrloy, o;its and clean water. After October 1st were kept in moderate conifinement, were tree from lice, -without male birds amd were fed im the morning t-wo quarts of warm mash, oompoeed of two bushels oals, one bushel com. ground very fine, titty pounds middliiiga, one hundred pounds bran, mixed, oost leaa that one cent per pound. They were fed at daylight, regularly, then a rash was made for the scratching sheds where a quart of mix- ed Igralna had been si)aded in. At noon on cold days another quart went in and they would lie at work all duy. Lawn cli,ppings, dried, tightly rolled in a length of poultry netting, also <al)- bages BUS[>ended. were other diversions. Just before dark all the mixed grains they would eat wiere fed. Two liush,- els wh)i«it, two buslipla corn, one-halt buabiol buckwheat, one-half bushel oats, cost over ouo cent per pound. Some- times th-ey were giren parched whole corn. Ten bags of lawn clippings and clover chaff, one barrel of waste beets and turnips, one hundre<l head waste cabbage, table scraps that were not salty or fat were fed and not obarged for. Neither was all the charcoaLsharp grit and oyster shells they would eat oharged. Green ground bone and beef livers were fed dally in amall quan- tities. This and the alisence of male birds made the hens very tame â€" an es- sential. Eggs were all sold to private famlldes at two cents fier dozen aliove store price, or four to six oents more than would have l)eiein realized by sell- ing to middlemen. In tive winter months housed in this building, and fed as I have described the forty hens yield- ed me a profit of >fi0.10. FARM NOTES. Poorly farmed land ia capital only half invested. Work tor better cultivation rather than for more land. A small farm well tilled will l>ay much better that a large one half farm- Mi. The cardinal virtues in preparing all kinds ot produce for market are neat- ness, cleanliness and uniformity. The assessor will not fail to find ev- i^ry acre ot land you own. Better not awTx more than you can pay taxes on. The railroads are continually trying to avoid "carrying empty." They make their protTut by hauliug good loads both ways. Many tariOBrs do too much "hauling empty." The only way to prove tJie beat vari- eties ot fruit is to oaretully test new vari'-tiea l)e(fr)re pla iliig extensively for field oulturd, for ma,ay of our fruits are very fickle about soil. The sale of fruits in our markets is dependent UfKNi, 1, the (liaractor ottrui-t offered, i, the ki-nd of iKickage used, 9, projier gr.ading in packing, 4, the con- dition in which it ia received. I.imlM of trees broken Ijy snow and ice should be sawed off neatly and the wound covered with thick ai>aint or grafting wax. Trees gnawed by rab- bits or mice plasteind with a poultice of clay may live, if not girdled. 'The uggrtgate sum yearly paid to railroads ond steamships for carryiii|{ farm produ< ta which on arrival prove to be unsalable no one can estimate, but it must foot up enormously, to say nothing of the freight charges [laid on goods sold far l)elow market rates be- cause put up carelessly or In unsuitable or unpopular packag(«. Stable manure, fresh from the stalls of doineatic animals, may l>e hauled and spread over tlie roots of trees, ahrulw, canes and vines, of i>erennial plivnts and upon ground designed to Ije plowed and I>lantnd in the spring. There Is no l»t- ter time to .T,pply inanurei than when it ia m;ade, and no l>elt/'r way than uiXMi the surfjioe in â- wintx>r. Provided the land is not so rolling th^t the Btrength of the manure is not oar'ried off by the ^ring raima. WINTER WRINKLES. Miss Trill â€" "I love to hear the birds sing." Jack Dotvuright, warmlyâ€" "So do I. They never attemitt ai piece 1)0- yond their ability." Heâ€" "That is Mrs. Pendenni'a, Pres- ident ot the Astronomical Society, and she's exasjioratingly clever." She' â€" "Yes, but ho>v consolingly ugly." •Hatching a Considracy.â€" Uncle Ned â€" ' IIow do you like your newi steam cnKinef Johnnyâ€" "Isn't . it a dan- dy? I wonder it we could burst the I)oiU)r? Instruction.â€" Johnny â€" "And does the gas-meter measure the quantity of gas you use?" Pajtaâ€" "No, my .son; the quantity you have to pay for." Real Grief.â€" "Dreadful alout Mr.s. Uixby's sudden death." "W|iatl Is she dead? I was just going over lo sell her a ticket to our charity bazaar." I'inancial Methods.â€" "What would you do if you had only ton cents in the world, Kitty!" "I would buy cara- Hiels with it, to raise my sjiirits." • Baconâ€" "And he's kind-iienrted, l.s hef" Eglwrt-" Kind-hearted! Why, I ikm'i lielieve ho ever said an unkind word, even to an alarm-clock." "Mien's promises," the young wife said lietween solw," "are like pie-crust â€" " " That's tough," said the young hus- band, and then she got angry enough to cry." Bftglej'â€" "Bent is a very generous man." Braceâ€" "In what respect?" Bag- ley-" He never passes a lieggar that he doesn't liorrow a dime from me to give to himi." Not an Authority.â€" Customer, in re- stajurajit â€" "This lieefsteak must be at least three weeks old, isn't it?" Wait- er- "Don't know, sah; I'se only been heah two weeks, sah." Wickwireâ€" "I like Tlmmins'a stories. He lias such a light touch." .Slmmins â€""Yes, that's one thing in Timmins's favor. Ho rarely strikes one tor more than two or three dollars." Not Shared.â€" Margaretâ€" "Mr. Pent- ameter r>oetioally describes Edna, and Tom Shallow as two souls with but a single thought." Jack Bluntâ€" "Yes, Edna has the thou^jbt." "SMARTNESS." Lard Okarles Beresrurd itoandii a fraralac Mole .Igaintl (he C«rrn|»t Use of .Moaey. Lord Charles Bereaford, a gallant) sailor of the British navy, if»««ntly startled a London audience by makin^r an earnest protest against the sordid tendencies of social life. He declared that rich men were able to buy their way into the highest social and politi- cal iiositions, and that the money pow- er was eating away like a canker tha virtues of English character. Wherever there are great masses oC wealth, there will be those to make a vicious use of it, whetlier in/ England, or America, or anywhere The power of money will always bo misused by many rich men in any country; just as tliero are invariably millionairea who have a proiier sense of their re- apon!,iliilities as the iiosseasor.s ot great fortunes, and make good use of their weal til by founding colleges and art galleries and endowing hospitals and public charities. What Lord Charles Reresford's audi- ence could not understand was the mo- tive which had inspired so eminent and public-spirited a man in l.ia sudden outbreak against the sordid and demor- alizing influences of money. If the speech had Ijeen made t\vo years ago, when-tlie South African millionairea organized their raid against tbeTrans- vaal, they would not hove needed any explanation. The abuses of money pow- er were then a public scandal. But there seemed to lie nothing in recent affairs to Justify his solemn ^varning against the corrupting influences ot money. Lord Charles Beresford, is, however, a man of rank and social prestige, who knows what is lioing on in the world of Enjiilsh fashion. He was not firing a gun aimlessly in the air. There is a word wbicth is constantly used hy ambitious (leople in England, whether they have much or little money Tlint word is "smart." There IS no magnet so strong in London so- ciety, as what is known as "a smart set," who know the right i)eople, drrss handsomely, and set tlie fashions of the day, and whose names are constantly appearing in 'society journals" There are rich |ieo|)le who desire ad- mission into these "smart" circles, and are eager to buy the privileges at bigtai cost by entertaining extravagantly and lending money to S|iendtbritta. There are company-promoters and stook- siwculators who are willing to put the leaders ot such sets in the way of mak- ing money easily, and their services are accepted only too often in inymentfoo social introductions which could not be otherwise obtained. Lord Charles Ueresford iirol>ably had the follies, lax morality and selfish- ness, ot this faat, "smart" swiety in mind when he sounded his wttrmiag- against the corrupt use of money in the fashionable world. The moral, however, is good for ev- ery aije and country. It is not a high ami.ition to aspire to Itelong to "smart" .sets, which make a great show in the world, and by the very conditions un- der which they live are led daily to lie supremely considerate of themselves and wholly inditforent to tbe,-iecd4 of humanity about them. \' TORPEDO BOATS. Firicea to Elshlfrn for (he Priee at a llaliie Hhlp. Yarro\v & Thornycroi't, of London, have widened their repute and their influence, if that wei-« possible, writes a correspondent. The great develop- memt in torpedo tactics is traceable to Ui«n^ The fliuih of the "Lightning" uiwn the scene startled I'Juropeun Pow- ers to the full i>os&tbi.ities. ^ince then almost ©very yosir has Ijeea marked with a forward movement, uhtil now high authoritia^t like Admiral Colomb, seriously discuss whether or not the whole game of sea warfare has mot lieen radically ohaagiad, and the battloship made us useiess as the old galleys of thA Roman Emigre. There is much in it, too. For tills price of a battleship 15 or 18 of tbeaa W-knot destroyers can ba built, and thiey cvin be manned by Uie crew of oue battioab'ip. Such a force attacking a ship, even in broad (Uiy light, would make things lively. I Iittve not recorded on the map the faci- lity tor constructing tlnesw craft. IVelvo yard* nave laid uienvselves out for the work of building them, and it must lie rememlierod thai, while in all other cases the admiralty submit <lraW' ings for liull.s, tlwj liuifders uretheno selves resiHMVsible for <le»igQ and spoo of these craft. Immense difficultie, i\iia involved, it IJiere Is not sume nv loriem-e to draw UfKin. Nearly 100 of Uie«6 vessels have been, or are be- ing, conatructod, and, a !at-ge numl;e^' could' l)e built witliin a y<Nir should the occasion- arise. Had', tJiis work oC building a new lyjuj of critl been de- mnaded in 'iiiiv other count ry, i--i.oed I>n'miums -vNtml I have ticeu almost liec- essary, but these, arti unknimn in Hri- taiii. In thQrnit,id t<tat.e.<, i>n the i/iher hand, much hsis ix^'a earned in this way. I have takonl? vessels at ran- dom, and find tiiat the iKjwer and .speed pre«i.i\ims equaled 7.8S \wt cent, of- the total cost; ill on© casw it: was :J5. ler ("e-nt., ia otlierH from IP t.o 12 [er.cent. It. is -all the other way in ICngland; firraH coinjiete keenly for Government work, for it carries* a pivstijjc. The approval of tlite admiralty cvtwfts creates a standard which olber Gov- ernments are ready to accept, and the lor.figu warship built iu liritaio is non* Uie wonse for that. L -^ MOSQUITO'S 1X)0L BOX. The l)eak of the mosquito is simiily a tool box wher<'in the ino.Hquito kce|is .six miniature surKicak instruinenis in jiertect working order. Two of these instruments are e.xaclj counterparts of the surgeon's lance. One is a s|iear with a double-barlwd lie.iil; the fourth is a needle of exquisite fineness, a .saw and a pump going to make up ttv« coui- plemeufa 1 |g^